Hi I found this nice little CK 730, with a T17 inside from around 1936 :


Here it is in a 1938 French catalog (same dial, referred to as 'square dial' and hands) :


This reference was advertised in the same catalog with an alternative ('rectangle') dial :



This combo is also nice looking, making the choice between the two quite difficult :


(expecially with this one that has a dial in a very good condition).

At the end of the day, I decided that those two made a pair and it was not totally unreasonable not to keep both :

 

Very unusual dial Yann.

If you ever think you have too many of the same thing I can help you out.

 

Two lovely watches
But Oh good grief ! - I thought postmodernism didn't happen till 30 or 40 years later - but it seems to have been in existence even whilst modernism was still raging
The first watch should be used to rewrite the annals of design

 

I don't imagine that I could think one day I have too much of those pre fifties beauties. There are so many variations that a full life collecting them would probably not be enough to have them all.

 

Both are nice. First one is my favourite.

Are the hour hands still called "sword" hands? I can recall the same style hands used on some versions of the Omega Medicus

 

I like both but prefer the second, it's less fussy.

 

If I remember well, the hands on the 'carre' dial are called Alpha hands. Typical on the T17.